Financial Impact Factor Radio

When we look back on the science of the brain, we find a 400-year history of looking at this organ as a machine, each section performing a mental function based on a single location. Then we saw it as a computer, hard wired with critical functions and circuitry that could change only within a window of opportunity, a time when some neuroscientists believe the brain had its most pliable moment, a plasticity if you will. As we aged, these moments became less frequent as we believed we are who we are and changing the direction of where we are going was much more infrequent. If you have ever attempted to learn a new language for instance, or wanted to master a musical instrument later in life, you know what I’m speaking of. It seems harder or at least we tell ourselves that it is.

Today on the Financial Impact Factor Radio with Paul Petillo, Dave Kittredge and Dave Ng, we have a practicing psychologist who specializes in financial psychology and relationship issues, Dr. Maggie Baker. She has been in this field for 30 years and is the author of the insightful book, Crazy about Money.